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To enable history configuration is required at MQTT Engine, at each MQTT tag, and at the MQTT Transmission module. In addition, a History Store must also be defined for MQTT Transmission.
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Before we get started on the requirements for enabling History on MQTT Engine Tags, one should take note of the two ways that MQTT Engine historical event processing can result in historical inserts into the database:
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Store and Forward does not guarantee all data is stored and forwarded. There are some edge cases that are not currently handled with regard to data loss in the event of connection failures related to MQTT keep alive timeouts. This window of potential missed data can be reduced by decreasing MQTT Transmission and MQTT Engine configurable keep alive timeouts. |
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There are caveats to configuration option 2 above (to write historical events directly to the Tag):
If MQTT Engine is configured to write historical events directly to the Tag, history on the Edge (i.e., Transmission side) must be configured to flush history in order. This means that when the Edge side client comes back online and flushes history, it must flush the oldest historical events first (in order) before sending live Tag changes events to Engine. This is because Ignition will ignore writes to the Tag if the timestamp on the Tag change is older that the current value. Please see the screenshots below for context:
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Requires the [MQTT Transmission Settings -> Transmitters -> [Your Transmitter… Default/Custom] -> Configuration -> In-Order History] setting to be checked/true
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There are some rules for enabling history on MQTT Engine Tags. They are:
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See the Ignition documentation Configuring Tag History for additional help.
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There are two ways that MQTT Engine historical event processing can result in historical inserts into the database:
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The configuration parameters required to write historical events directly to the database, via the Historian, bypassing the Tag are detailed below.
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These are the default settings for both MQTT Engine and MQTT Transmission. Enabling the In-Order History for MQTT Transmission is unnecessary and will result in a waste of resources. |
Under the MQTT Engine Settings General Tab, navigate to the Miscellaneous Settings and ensure Store Historical events is selected
Under the MQTT Transmission Settings for your transmitter, navigate to the History Settings and ensure that In-Order History is de-selected.
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There are several reasons why you might need to write directly to the tag which include:
The configuration parameters required to write historical events to the Tag instead of directly to the Historian are detailed below.
Under the MQTT Engine Settings General Tab, navigate to the Miscellaneous Settings and ensure Store Historical events is de-selected
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Under the MQTT Transmission Settings for your transmitter, navigate to the History Settings and ensure that In-Order History is selected. This ensures that when the Edge side client comes back online and flushes history, it will flush the oldest historical events first (in order) before sending live Tag changes events to Engine.
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If you do not select In-Order History, data will be lost/ignored at MQTT engine because Ignition will ignore writes to the Tag if the timestamp on the Tag change is older that the current value. |
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Deleting an MQTT Engine tag will result in a loss of history configuration. |
However, deleting Deleting MQTT Engine tags can be required in certain cases. One example is if UDTs are being propagated from the Edge and the UDT definition on the Edge has been updated. This requires one to delete all instances of the UDT under MQTT Engine Engine and delete delete the corresponding UDT definition so that it can be recreated/updated at MQTT Engine for the Edge side changes to take affect.
There are two options for persisting history configuration in this case and they are as follows:
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One can determine the current size of the History Store by examining the History Store metric tags under [MQTT Transmission]Transmission Info/History Store. These tags will show the number of historical metrics stored per edgenode/device and how much memory/disk is being consumed by these metrics. These tags update live (count down) as historical data is flushed.
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Configuring history on tags indirectly referencing MQTT Engine tags will work properly if the referencing tag is a Reference tag only. Derived, Expression and OPC tags (expose MQTT Engine tag provider through OPCUA server) will not properly store history when MQTT Engine tags are updated with historical data at a high rate of speed. This is a limitation within the Ignition platform and may be addressed in a future release.
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If using an Ignition v8.1.4 or later with MQTT Engine - Historical back-fill support was added in Ignition which allows Reference Tags in Ignition to be updated even if history arrives out of order. See the following document for details: MQTT History Back-Fill with Reference Tags
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One can determine the current size of the History Store by examining the History Store metric tags under [MQTT Transmission]Transmission Info/History Store. These tags will show the number of historical metrics stored per edgenode/device and how much memory/disk is being consumed by these metrics. These tags update live (count down) as historical data is flushed.
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